Lot n° 250
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Gisèle PRASSINOS.
Quand le bruit travaille.
Paris, GLM, 1936.
In-12 : paperback.
Original edition.
It is illustrated with a photograph pasted on the frontispiece reproducing a drawing by Hans
Bellmer in white on a black background.
One of 30 copies on normandy vellum (nº 23), second paper after 5 japon.
Collection of five surrealist texts by Gisèle Prassinos: Drame d'eau, Le moine, Le scaphandrier qu'on enchanta, La jeune fille persécutée and Quand le bruit travaille.
(Coron, Les Éditions GLM, bibliography, 1981, nº 84: "This is the first book to have only the three initials of the name of the publisher-printers on the title page and cover, without any other precision or addition to a signature that is almost always so brief from now on.")
Attached are the autograph manuscripts of three of the texts in the collection:
- Drame d'eau, 4 and a half pages on 4 sheets in-4, in black and violet ink and pencil Manuscript corrected and signed;
- The Monk, 5 narrow leaves in-4 in ink with corrections in pencil. Manuscript signed;
- When the noise works, 2 pages on an in-4 sheet of squared paper in ink with corrections in pencil. Manuscript signed.
Manuscripts and books of very different sizes are preserved in an ingenious grey half cloth box.
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